Re: [GNU Crypto] RFC: merging GNU Crypto and Jessie

[Casey Marshall]

On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Raif S. Naffah wrote:

> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 18:42, Casey Marshall wrote:
> > A few of us have been throwing around the idea of merging GNU Crypto
> > and Jessie into GNU Classpath, so Classpath will have full support
> > for crypto and SSL "out of the box." We've proposed this before, and
> > I think this idea was mostly approved by the group, but no-one ever
> > got around to doing it.
> >
> > I'd like to propose again that we do this. I'll try to get to this
> > myself, but if I can't get this done, we'll at least have a plan of
> > action. I propose that we
> >
> >    - Rename the root package 'gnu.crypto' to 'gnu.javax.crypto' in
> > GNU Crypto, and merge the current CVS sources into Classpath (not
> > under external/). We then put GNU Crypto into a kind of "stasis"
> > mode, and continue to develop these sources in Classpath.
>
> i think once the merge is done GNU Crypto can be retired all together.

We could do that, and it might be the de facto result, anyway.

But I've always thought that GNU Crypto's goals are a little wider in  
scope than crypto support in Classpath, so it is useful on its own.  
The best example is where GNU Crypto provides interesting APIs  
(assembly, AEAD modes) that the J2SE doesn't have.

Thanks.